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' Patented Apr. 23, 1929.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MAXIMILIAN M. GOLDBERG, OF DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE NATIONAL CASH REGISTER COMPANY, OF DAYTON, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF MARYLAND.

AUDITING MACHINE.

Original application filed March 19, 1924, Serial No. 700,305. Divided and this application filed June 29,

1925. Serial No. 40,295.

This invention relates to improvements in card feeding mechanism and constitutes a division of the copending application, Serial No. 7 00,305, filed March 19, 1924.

One object of this invention is to provide an improved mechanism for feeding cards from a supply magazine to an analyzer and thence into a receiving magazine.

WVith this and other objects in view, which will appear in the specification, the invention consists of certain novel features and combinations of parts, the essential elements of which are set forth in appended claims and a preferred form or embodiment of which is hereinafter described with reference to the drawings which accompany and form part of this specification.

Of said drawings:

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the mechanism for feeding cards from a supply magazine to an analyzer, and then into a receiving magazine.

Fig. 2 is a detail view of a mechanism for detachably securing the receiving magazine in the machine.

Fig. 3 is a detail view taken at right angles to Fig. 2. showing apart of. the mechanism for detachably scouring the receiving magazine in the machine.

Fig. 4; is an enlarged detail view in cross section. of a partof the card feeding mechanism shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 a detail view showing the cam for engaging the analyzer frame with the card.

Fig. 6 is an enlarged sectional view taken on line 66 of Fig. 4.

Fig. 7 is adetail view of the mechanism for driving the card feeding rollers.

Fig. 8 a detail view of a part of the mechanism shown in Figs. 1 and 4.

Fig. 9 is a plan view of the supply magazine shown without cards and with the follower plate in the position it assumes when the magazine is full of cards.

Fig. 10 is an elevational view looking at the analyzer conductor plates. and also shows the mechanism for feeding the cards.

In general.

Described in general, the mechanism herein' disclosed comprises a. supply magazine into which a plurality of cards are placed. and a reciprocating bar which feeds the cards from the supply magazine one at a time into the path of two pairs of feeding rollers, which in turn feed the cards to the analyzer. The analyzer is provided with stops which are rocked into the path of the card to properly position it in front of the analyzer. After the card has been so positioned, the analyzer engages the card and interprets the record recorded t-hereon. The'mechanism for accumulating the various data is not shown herein, as it forms no part of the present invention. After the record has been interpreted or analyzed, the analyzer is disengaged from the card and moved far enough 'to disengage the stops from beneath the cards. A mechanism is provided for advancing the cards to a pair of ejecting rollers after the stops have been removed from the path of the cards. These rollers discharge the cards into a receiving magazine.

Driving mechanism.

The mechanism herein disclosed may be driven from a motor as shown in the parent application, or in any other suit-able manner. In the presentapplication, the means for drit ing the mechanism is not shown. It is sulficient to state herein that a main shaft (Figs. 1, 5 and 7) is given one complete rotation for every cycle of operation of the machine. This main shaft drives the various trains of mechanism, as will be hereinafter described.

Urml feeding mechanism.

Secured to the above mentioned shaft 30 is a gear 31 (Figs. 1 and 7), having a cam race 32 on one side, with which cooperates a roller 33 mounted on the lower arm of a bell crank lever 34. The upper arm of the lever is provided with teeth 35 meshing with teeth 86 on an arm 87 (Figs. 1. 4, 6, and 8) fast on a shaft 38 carried by side frames 39 and 40. Also fast on the shaft 38 is an arm 41 (Figs. 1 and 6) similar to the arm 37 except that it has no teeth 30 thereon. The forward ends of the arms 37 and 4.1 carry a short shaft- 42 (Figs l. 4, 6 and 8), near each end of which is loosely mounted the lower end of a. link 43. The upper ends of the links 43 are pivoted to a slidablc feed bar l t (Figs. 1. 9. and 10) which carries a removable feed plate 453 adapted to move the cards downwardly one by one.

The feed bar 44 is slidable mounted on two vertical guide rods 46 projecting upwardly from a bracket 47 carried by the side frames 39 and 40. A bracket 48 extending between the side frames braces the upper ends of the guide rods 46.

The feed plate is mounted on the slidable feed bar 44 by means of two screws 49 (Fig. 9) and is provided with two angular slots 50 to permit adjustment of said feed plate to accommodate cards of various thicknesses. The feed plate 45 is so adjusted that its inner edge will project beyond the inner face of the feed bar 44 to over hang the foremost card in the supply magazine.

From the above description it can be seen that at the beginning of the rotation of the gear 31 in counter-clockwise direction (Fig. 1), the bell crank lever 34 will be given a short quick oscillation to first lower the feed plate 45 and slide one card from the supply magazine to the bite of feed rollers and 56 (Figs. 4 and 10). after which the bell crank lever will restore the feed bar and its feed plate to normal elevated position.

The feed rollers 55 are fast on a shaft 57 journaled in the above mentioned side frames 39 and 40. "he feed rollers 56 are fast on a shaft 58 also carried by the side frames 39 and 40. Near one end of each of the shafts 57 and 58 (Figs. 1 and 10) and fast thereon, are gears 60 and 61, respectively. Near the opposite end of the shaft 58 (Figs. 4, 7, and 10) and fast thereto is a pinion 62 meshing with a gear 63 loose on the shaft 38 and meshing with a gear 64 secured to the hub 65 of the previously described gear 31.

From the above description it can be seen that when the gear 31 is rotated counterclockwise, (Fig. 7) the feed rollers 55 and 56 will be rotated to feed the card to the analyzer. The length of this feed is sufficient to advance the card against two inwardly projecting stops (Figs. 4 and 6) formed on the lower edge of the shiftable analyzer frame 71. which stops are normally held out of the path of the card. However, as will be hereinafter explained. the analyzer frame is given a slight clockwise movement just before the feed rollers and 56 complete the feeding of the card, which clockwise movement interposes the stops 70 into the path of the card during its downward travel.

Carried between two transverse brackets and 76 (Fig. 4) supported by the side frames 39 and 40, are two parallel ways or guides 77 (see also Figs. 6 and 10) having slots 78 (Fig. 6) adapted to guide the cards from the discharge opening in the supply magazine to the analyzer and thence to the discharge rolls. The bracket 76 forms the bottom of the supply magazine. Flanges 79 on the under side of the bracket 48 cooperate with flanges 7 51 at the forward corners of the bracket 76, and with ears 136 on the sides 130 of the supply magazine to guide the cards until they reach the slots 78.

After the card comes to rest against the stops 70, the analyzer 71 is given an additional clockwise movement suflicient to engage the analyzer feelers 165 with the card. After the various elements of the machine have been operated, the analyzer frame is rocked counter-clockwise (Fig. 4) to disengage the stops 70 from the leading edge of the card.

The mechanism for feeding the card from its position adjacent the analyzer frame to the receiving mechanism will now be described. Fast on the short shaft- 42 (Figs. 4, (S and 8) are two arms 80 having laterally extending fingers 96. Also fast on the shaft 42 is an arm 81 carrying a roller 82 adapted to engage a slot'83 in anarm 84 loosely mounted on a shaft 85. The arm 84 has a rearwardly projecting arm 86 carrying a roller 87 cooperating with a cam slot 88 cut in the side of the above described gear 63. Mounted on each end of a transversely extending sliding frame 90 is a roller 91 (best shown in Fig. (3) projecting into slots 92 in the arms 37 and 41, respectively. The frame 90 is slidably mounted on two guide rods 95 mounted in the above mentioned brackets 7 5 and 76.

\Vhen the arms 37 and 41-receive their oscillating movements from the bell crank lever 34. the two arms 80 and the slidable frame 90 will be shifted first down, and then up. The object in sliding the frame 90 with the card feeding mechanism is to insure proper backing for the card as it is being fed through the machine. The fingers 96 on the feed arms 80 feed the cards from a position adjacent to the analyzer frame to the ejecting feed rollers 100 and 101.

The frame 90 and the arms 80, as shown in Fig. 4, are in the positions they assume when the machine comes to rest. The positions assumed by the arms 80 at the beginning of a card feeding cycle of operation is just above a line drawn between the center lines of the shafts 57 and 58.

\Vhile the arms 80 are being returned to their uppermost positions, the succeeding card is being fed by the feed rollers 55 and 5G to a position adjacent the analyzer frame. It is, therefore, necessary to rock feed arms and their fingers 96 in clockwise direction (Fig. 4) to withdraw the fingers out of the path of the card, when they are returned to their uppermost positions. The cam race 88 is so 'timed that before the arms 80 begin to return to their uppermost positions. it will rock the linkage including the bell crank 84, 86 and arms 81 in a clockwise direction to rock the arms 80from the path of the succeeding card.

The slot 83 in the arm 84 is so shaped that it will guide the fingers 96 of the arms 80 in a.

path parallel with the path of the card through the machine during their downward movement.

Fast on the shaft near one side frame 39 and meshing with the gear 63 is a pinion (Figs. 4 and 7). Also fast on the shaft 85 near the opposite side frame 40 is a pinion 106 (Fig. 1) meshing with a pinion 107 fast on a. shaft 108 carried by the'side frames 39 and 40. Also fast on the shaft 108 are the be fore mentioned ejecting rollers 100 which co operate with the ejecting rollers 101 secured to the shaft 85. From above description it can be seen that the fingers 96 will feed the cards from a position adjacent the analyzer to the ejecting rollers 100 and 101 which will eject the card into a receiving hopper 110.

Receiving magazine.

The magazine into which the cards are fed after being analyzed will now be described. This receiving magazine is made of two parts, an upper part 110 (Figs. 1 and 3) secured to the sideframe 40 by means of four screws 111, and a lower part 112 releasably connected to the upper section 110 to enable the operator to remove the cards which have been analyzed. The upper half 110 of the magazine has two flanges adjacent the side frame 40, and two flanges 113 near the opposite side frame 39, the flanges projecting from opposite sides of the magazine, and carried by said pairs of flanges are two shafts 114, each of which has fast thereon two depending books 115 (see also Figs. 2 and 3) which normally co operate with angle clips 116 secured to the lower half 112 of the magazine for holding it in the machine. The left hand shaft 114 (Fig. 2) projects through the side frame 40 and has fast thereto a finger piece 120. Near the rear ends of the shafts 114 are fast two arms 121 extending toward and connected to each other by a pin-and-slot connection. Surrounding each of the shafts 114 is acoiled spring 122 to hold the hooks 115 in engagement with the angle clips 116.

If the lever (Fig. 2) is rocked clockwise it will disengage the books 115 from the angle clips 116 by rockin g the arms 121, thus permitting the lower half 112 of the magazine to be removed from the machine. Guides 125 are provided to aid in replacing the lower half of the receiving magazine in the machine.

Supply magazine.

Rising from the bracket 7 5 are two flanges (Figs. 1 and 9) which form the side walls of the supply magazine. A follower plate 131 adapted to fit between the flanges 130, is held against the rear end of a stack of cards b twdweights 132 fast on the lower ends of cables 133 which pass around pulleys 134 and 135. The other ends of the cables are fast to two projecting ears on the follower plate 131. The pulleys 134 and 135 are car- 194 to be hereinafter described.

ried by studs mounted in the side frames 39 and 40. The follower plate 131 exerts a constant pressure against the cards to feed them towards the face (Fig. 3) of the bracket 47 and againsta pair of upwardly projecting resilient arresting fingers or springs 146 mounted on the bracket 47.

On the under side of the bracket 75 is a restraining bar 150 (Figs. 1, 4, and 9) slidably mounted on two studs 151. The restraining bar 150 is held in position by an adjusting screw 152, loosely mounted in a lug 153 on the bracket 75 and screwed into a downwardly projecting flange 154 of the bar 150, and by a spring 155. The spring 155 exerts pressure against the flange 154 of the bar 150, and thereby forces the head of the screw 152 tightly against the lug 153 of the bracket 75. The spring 155 thus acts to prevent the screw 152 from being accidentally turned, and thereby prevents the restraining bar 150 from getting out of ad ustment after it has been positioned by the adjusting screw 152.

A lip projects upwardly from the free end of the restraining bar 150 through an opening in the forward edge of the bracket 75, the edge of the lip lying substantially in the same plane with the bottom of the supply magazine, and adjustable as above explained, to more or less obstruct the discharge slot through which the cards pass to the feed rolls 55, 56. The restraining bar 150 is mounted thus so that it can be adjusted to accommodate cards of various thicknesses, and thereby prevent more than one card from being fed through the machine at one time.

Analyzer.

T he mechanism herein disclosed is shown adapted to be used for feeding cards to an analyzer. The analyzer itselfforms no part of the present invention but is herein disclosed to show one form with which the present invention may be associated, and there. fore, only a brief description of so much of the analyzer as com-ts with the card feeding mechanism will be given.

The analyzer includes a plurality of sets of feelers or contacts 105, (Figs. 4 and (5) each set having ten feelers or contacts. These contacts are mounted in a bar of insulation 160 and have a spring joint 107 to insure a perfect contact with the analyzer contact bars An additional bar of insulation 168 is provided with apertures through which the individual contacts extend. the walls of the apertures adapted to support the analyzer contacts. Carried between two side,plates 170 are the upper and lower tie bars 171 which support the above mentioned insulation bars 100 and 108. Mounted on each of two parallel shafts 172 and 173 are pairs of parallel arms 174 and 175. respectively. The two arms 174 are loose on the shaft 172 and the two arms 175 are se- Fast on the face of the cured to the shaft 173. The upper ends of the pairs of arms174 and 175 are pivotally connected to the respective side plates 170 in spaced relation to permit a parallel motion of the pairs of arms- Also secured to the shaft 173 is an arm 176 (Fig. 5) having a pin-and-slot connection with an arm 17 7 loosely mounted on a shaft 178 carried by the frames 39 and 40. The arm 177 carries a roll 179 entered in a slot 180 cut in the side of one member of a pair of cams 181. The pair of cams 181 is' loosely mounted on the main shaft and is driven therewith by means of a clutch member 182 having two pins 183 adapted to engage holes in one member of the pair of cams 181. The clutch member 182 is keyed to the shaft 30 and is adapted to be slid laterally thereon to control the time during which the analyzer is to function. A full description of the cam members 181 and the clutch mechanism therefor may be had by referring to the above-mentioned application.

hen the pair of cams 181 is given a complete counter-clockwise rotation (Fig. 5) by the shaft 30, the cam slots 180 will rock the arm 177 clockwise and, through the arm 176, shaft 178, and the pairs of arms 174 and 175, will rock the analyzer frame 71 clockwise. As heretofore mentioned, the cam slot 180 is so formed that the analyzer frame 71 is given first a slight clockwise movement to position the card arresting lugs 70 thereon in the path of the cards, and then a further clockwise movement to engage the spring contacts 165 with the card.

Contact bars.

Connecting the two sides of the slidable frame 90, (Figs. 4, (3 and 10) and forming a part thereof, isv an angular cross plate 190 to the face of which is secured a table 191. The table 191 is fastened in spaced relation to the cross plate 190 by means of insulated screws 192 (Fig. 4), only two of which are shown. table 191 is a sheet of insulation 193 which has embedded therein the anlyzer contact bars 194 and a contact plate 195 which are insulated from each other;

Each of these contact bars 194 and the plate 195 is adapted to connect the analyzer contacts 165 in circuit for interpreting the data contained on the record. The means for interpreting the data forms no part of the present invention and no further description will be given herein, but reference may be had thereto in the before mentioned application.

While the cycles of operation of the machine overlap, an explanation of one operation of the machine will be given, assum ng the parts to be in the positions shown in Figs. 1 and 4.

Viewing these figures, it will be seen that, at the end of a complete rotation of the main drive shaft 30, the roll 33 of the bell prank lever 34 lies to the left of the high point or apex of the cam groove 32, the bell crank occupying a partially operated position. In such position, the bell crank lever has partially operated the lever 37 and arm 41 in counter-clockwise direction, and these levers, in turn have drawn partially downwardly, the links 43 connected to the slidable feed bar 44 to draw the latter with its feed plate 45 part way down, as shown in Fig. 1, in which the projecting edge of the feed plate 45 has fed a card part way through the slot in the bottom of the supply magazine, but not far enough to enter the leading edge of the card between the continuously rotating feed rolls 55, 56.

Also, the feed fingers 80, 96, have been shifted partway downwardly, together with the back stop and contact-carrying table 191. And the contact holder 170 has been wholly withdrawn from the table 191 to remove the stops from the leading edge of the previously fed card, the fingers 96 overlying the upper edge of such previously fed card in readiness to advance the leading edge of the card to the bite of the continuously rotating ejecting rolls 100, 101 if the card has not slid downwardly thereto by gravity.

\Vith the parts in the above positions, and assuming a continued rotation of the main shaft 30, the cam groove 32 or gear 31 will resume its rocking of the bell crank lever 34 in counter-clockwise direction to complete the counter-clockwise travel of the lever 37 and arm 41. The lever 37 and arm 41 will draw the arms downwardly causing the fingers 96 thereon to contact the upper edge of the previously fed card, if the latter has not dropped to the ejecting rolls 100, 101 by gravity, and insure the travel of the cards to the rolls. The roll 82 connected with the arms 80 idly traverses the guide slot 83 in the arm 84 of the bell crank lever 84, 86. The lever 37 and arm 41 alsov slide the table 191 downwardly coincidcntly with the arms 80.

The links 43 connected with the lever 37 and arm 41, draw the feed bar 44 downwardly coincidcntly with the downward travel of the feed fingers 96, so that as the previously fed card is advanced to the ejecting rolls 100, 101,

the feed bar 44 and its plate 45 will complete the advancement of the succeeding card already partially fed out of the supply magazine, to the feed rolls 55, 56.

Simultanenously with the actuation of the feed arms 80 and feed bar 44, the gear 31 on the main shaft 80 drives the gear 63 in mesh with the pinion 62 on one of the feed roll shafts 58, to turn the feed rolls 55, 56 so that as soon as the feed bar 44 advances the card to the bite of the feed rolls 55, 56, the latter grip the card and propel its along the guideways 77 a little more rapidly than it is fed by the feed bar. The shape of the cam groove 32 is such, however, that the feed bar 44 follows the upper edge of the card for a short distance after it is gripped by the feed rolls 55, 56 to insure the discharge of the card from the supply magazine.

At the same time, the feed arms 80 and the table 19]. are descending to insure the advancement of the previously fed card to the ejector rolls 100 and 101, and the gear 63, through pinions 105, 106 is rotating the ejecting rolls to discharge such previously fed card from the ways 77 into the receiving magazine 110, 112.

As the feed arms 80 and feed bar 44 about reach the lower end of their travel, the walls of the cam race 180 (Fig. 5) act upon the roll 179 to rock the toggle arms 177, 176 and the shaft 173, and shift the arms 175 and the analyzer partway of their full travel towards the table 191 to interpose the stops into the path of the card advancing from the supply magazine to insure the arrest of such card in proper position.

At this time the roll 33 of the actuating bell crank lever 34 is at the apex of the cam groove 32, and continued rotation of the gear 31, causes the cam groove to rock the bell crank in the opposite direction. The bell crank 34, in turn, rocks the lever 37 and arm 41 in clockwise direction, to elevate the table 191, the feed arms 80 and the feed bar 44, to their highest limits of travel.

But because of the card advancing from the supply magazine at this time, it is necessary to withdraw the fingers 96 of the feed arms 80 from the path of such card, to accomplish which the walls of the cam groove 88 on the gear 63 operate at this time upon the roll 86 (Fig. 8) of the bell crank 84, 86 to rock the bell crank and cause its slotted arm 84 to swing the arm 81 on the shaft 49. in clockwise direction and thereby Withdraw the arms 80 and their fingers 96 from the path of the advancing car The cam groove 88 maintains the feed arms 80 retracted during the upward travel of the arms.

Such upward travel of the table 191, feed arms 80 and feed bar 44, continues under the influence of the actuating bell crank lever 34 until the feed bar 44 has been elevated slightly above the upper edges of the card in the supply magazine, at which time, the leading edge of the card last fed from the supply magazine is resting on the stops 70, and the active section of the cam groove 32 has nearly passed the roll 33 on the actuating bell crank 34.

And it is at this time that the walls of the cam groove 88 operate the bell crank 86, 84 to rock the arm 81, shaft 42 and feed arms 80 counter-clockwise to introduce the fingers 96 over the upper edge of the card last fed.-

As the active portion of the cam groove 32 is completing its operation on the bell crank 34, it rocks such bell crank counterclockwise to the position shown in Fig. 1,

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The fingers 96 of the feed arms 80, having been rocked counter-clockwise to cause the fingers to overhang the upper edge of the previously fed card, descend slightly to insure that the leading edge of the previously fed card shall rest on the stops 70.

The table 191 is shifted downwardly slightly to bring its contact bars 194 in proper relation to the contact feelers 165 of the analyzer, and the card feeding parts remain in these positions due to the dwell in the cam race 32.

During such dwell, the walls of the cam race 180 operate the toggle arms 177, 176, shaft 173 and arms 175 to complete the advance of the analyzer towards the table, and then to withdraw the analyzer from the table.

The analyzer may be regarded broadly as any work-performing means, and the card is locked between the stop 70 and finger 76,

and backed or supported by the table 191 while the work-performing member is operating.

While the form or mechanism herein shown and described is admirably adapted to fulfill the objects primarily stated, it is to be understood that it is not intended to confine the invention to the one form of embodiment herein disclosed, for it is susceptible of embodiment in various forms all coming within the scope of the claims which follow.

What is claimed is:

1. In a machine of the class described, the combination of means for feeding record material to an analyzer, means for feeding the record material from the machine, and a pivoted member for moving the record material from the analyzer to the second feeding means.

2. The combination of a pivoted member for moving cards, an arm having a cam for guiding the pivoted member in a path traveled by the cards, and a cam for rocking said arm into a position to guide the pivoted men'ibcr out of the path of the cardswhen traveling in the opposite direction.

3. The combination of a movable member adapted to engage the edge of a card, means to support the card, feeding means, and means for reciprocating said member and said support simultaneously to move the card to the feeding-means.

4. The combination of a movable member adapted to engage the edge of a record, means to support the record while being acted on, feeding means, and means for reciprocating said member and said supporting means simultaneously to move the record to the feeding means.

5. The combination of a pivoted member to engage the edge of a card, a support for the card, and means to shift the pivoted member and the support simultaneously.

6. The combination of a pivoted member to contact the edge of a record, a table to support the record, and means tO SlIIfi', the pivoted member and the supportmg table simultaneously. I

7 The combination of a pivoted member to contact the edge of record material, a table to support the record material, and means to shift the pivoted member and the supporting table simultaneously.

8. In a machine of the class described, the combination of guides for a card, a pivoted feed member adapted to engage the edge of a card, a table to support the card, and means to shift the pivoted feed member and the table together to move the card through the guides.

9. In a machine of the class described, the combination of guides for a record, a feed member to contact the edge of a record, a table to support the record while being operated upon, and means to shift the feed member and the table together to move the record through the guides.

10. The combination of guides for a card, feed member adapted to cooperate with the edge of the card for moving the card, and a movable table forming a support for the card as it is moved through the guides.

11. The combination of guides for a record, a feed member adapted to cooperate with the edge of the record for moving the record, and a movable table forming a support for the record as it is moved through the guides.

12. The combination of a means for feeding cards, one by one, adjacent to a supporting table. a pivoted member adapted to engage the edge of the card, means for moving the pivoted member and the supporting table sin'iultaneously to shift the card, and means to rock the pivoted member out of the path of the succeeding card before it is returned to engage the edge of the succeeding card.

13. The combination of means for feeding a record adjacent a supporting plate, a pivoted member adapted to engage the edge of the record. means to shift the pivoted memher and the supporting plate simultaneously for moving the record, and means to rock the pivoted member out of the path of the succeeding record.

1%. The combination of a record supply magazine, means to feed records from the magazine. means to arrest the records, a second feeding means, means to advance the records to the second feeding means, means to guide the said record advancing means in a line with the path of the records, and means to shift said record advancing means out of the path of the records on its return movement.

15. The combination of feeding rollers for feeding cards, shafts for supporting the rollers, and a member adapted to move between the said shafts to feed the cards from the position to which they are fed by the rollers.

16. The combination of feeding rollers for feeding cards, and pivoted members adapted to move past the ends of the rollers to feed the cards after the cards have been fed past the rollers.

17. The combination of feeding rollers for feeding cards, a pivoted member adapted to move past the center of the said rollers to feed the cards after they have been fed past the rollers, and means or rocking said pivoted member out of the path of the succeeding cards on its return movements.

18. In a machine of the class described, the combination with a record material arresting means; means to feed record material thereto; and ejecting mechanism to which the record material advances after being arrested by the said arresting means; of a pivoted reciprocatory member to insure the passage of the cards from the arresting means to the ejecting mechanism.

19. In a machine of the class described, the combination with record material arresting means; of means to advance record material towards the arresting means; ejecting mechanism to which the record material advances from the arresting means; and an intermittently operable pivoted member to insure the movement of the record material to the arresting means, and from the arresting means to the ejecting mechanism.

20. In a machine of the class described, the combination with asupply magazine, of a reciprocating means to feed record material therefrom; teed rollsto which the reciproeating means feeds the record material; a step towards which the feed rolls advance the record material; ecting mechanism towards which the record material advances from the stop; and intermittently-operated feed members adapted to insure the advance of the record material from the supply magazine to the stop, and from the stop to the ejecting mechanism.

21. In a machine of the character described, the combination with a supply for record material; arresting means therefor; and an ejecting mechanism; a reciprocatory teed device to discharge the record material from the supply; feed rolls to advance the record material tothe arresting means; a second teed device to insure the passage of the record material to the arresting means, and thereafter to the ejecting mechanism and drive mechanism for the feed devices and having a dwell portion to interrupt the travel of the feed devices intermediate the feeding action thereof.

22. In a machine of the class described, the combination with drive mechanism, and record material stopping means; of a reciprocatory feed member adapted to advance the record material to the stopping means; means operable from the drive mechanism to reciprocate the feed member; and other means operable from the drive mechanism to shift the feed member into and out of effective position relatively to the path of the record material.

23. In a machine of the class described, the combination with a record material supply; of record material supporting means; and a stop, said means and stop being movable in different angular directions relatively to each other; the stop being operable to Withdraw from the path of the record material; the supporting means being shiftable in a direction parallel with the path of the record material; and intermittently operable feed means to insure the positioning of the record material against the stop, and to insure the travel of the record material past the stop when the stop is withdrawn.

24. In a'machine of the class described the combination with a record material sup ply; means to discharge the record material therefrom; and means to arrest the record material in a certain position; of means to contact the record material and hold it snugly against the arresting means.

25. In a machine of the class described, the combination with means to arrest record material in a certain position of shittable feed means adapted to insure the advance of the record materialagainst the arresting means; and actuating means for the feed means to shift the latter, and to hold it stationary at a time when the feed means has engaged the record material to press it against the arresting means, whereby to confine the record material between the arresting and the feeding means, respectively.

In testimony whereof I allix my signature.

MAXlMILIAN M. GOLDBERG. 

